i rolled a joint for you 
but got so high
that i forgot to light it 
next time try 
being less lovely

i am so excited 
to party with you
take my hand
dance la danza muerte
i love you
and i don’t want this nite to end

i am a force
a pleasure 
i am a song
a rhythm 
African + European 
I am a story
fickle curls
giggling in the wind
i am a force
   Ready
for what may come
to give what needs giving
for life 

Various institutions engaged in a cultural war to neutralize Black musicians who had the potential to be political leaders.
— Read on hoodcommunist.org/2022/05/19/war-against-black-musicians/amp/

can’t describe the thing you do to me
how can i transcribe bee sting?
the rings the buzzes of birds bees
trees talk to me 
it’s a shock to me 
chip off the block
you see i been lovin you 
from light-years
been knowing you
for night-years
screws tighten on us / sight tears
pressure-boil as fascists oil
submachineguns
tragic-to think leisure will foil plots
magic - masses moving mountains 

i was never really like this
could never really recite this
odes were biting
undelighting
i was spiting everything in front of me
black windows green eyes
hazel blood inviting
alien tears / tracks
meadows where marigolds marinated 
in mercurium, oh my!
i was never really like this
       /ines of /inen
etched!stretched!across

now i know 
men ain’t supposed to cry 
big girls neither
but when you get to be with the one
who swept you off your feet eight months prior 
and now u gotta pack up and go home after eight days 
well i think that’s cause for some tears
happy and sad ones 
green tears
hot tears
after denying myself your love
n you standing there a lil bit impatient w me 
cuz u gotta get cross-town and
what’s the next six weeks compared to that?
nothin at all doll
nuthin at all 

we have been bio-logically
inclined, i prefer conditioned
we have been conditioned 
with the bio-logic 
which hold that life 
is form is function
is permanently fixed 
unfuxkwittable
but us we know 
this bio-logic clock
is a lie a myth a making us
crazy and begone! begin
a new era of 
loving 
living
& licking 

yesterday was the day before 
today was today, the day before 
tomorrow was the day 
you told me you cared
the day after i stopped caring
and after that
there were no more days to count